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John Bartlett

Born

in Plymouth, Massachusetts, The United States

June 14, 1820

Died

December 03, 1905

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(June 14, 1820 – December 3, 1905). "Father a descendant of the pilgrim ship Mayflower. A very bright boy, he was reading at age three and had read the entire Bible by nine. He finished school at age sixteen and went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked for the University Bookstore that served Harvard. By age twenty-nine he owned the store. Known for his memory for quotations and trivia, "Ask John Bartlett" became a byword in the community when someone was stumped.

He began keeping a commonplace book of quotations to answer queries and in 1855 privately printed the first edition of his Familiar Quotations. That edition of 258 pages contained entries from 169 authors. One-third of the book was quotations from the Bible and from the wo ...more

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	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 1,363 ratings — published 1855 — 101 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Shakespeare Quotations by John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1889 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Words to Live By: Advice and Inspiration for Everyday Life by John Bartlett, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Foreword) 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Bible Quotations by John Bartlett, Bruce Feiler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and Phrases in Common Use 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Complete Concordance To Shakespeare 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartlett's Book of Business Quotations by John Bartlett (Editor), Barbara Ann Kipfer (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Collection of Familiar Quotations with Complete Indices of Authors & Subjects 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.”
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“QUOTATION”
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later [1978]”
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